Lance Haig
AI And SDM Overlay Specialist Solutiuon Engineer at PreSales Collective
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolLance Haig is a Senior Solution Engineer and architecture leader with 15+ years focused on cloud, automation and large-scale IT transformation across EMEA, now based in Berlin. He has a proven track record driving ARR/TCV growth while leading and mentoring global Sales Engineering teams at HashiCorp and Docker, and now advising enterprise security and access tooling at StrongDM. Hands-on from early virtualisation and VDI projects to modern Terraform and Nomad deployments, he pairs deep infrastructure automation expertise with pragmatic commercial impact. An active contributor to HashiCorp's Nomad—improving ACLs and bootstrap token handling—he blends product-level engineering contributions with customer-facing solution design. Known for scaling teams and processes as well as shipping secure, auditable automation, he thrives at the intersection of technical depth and business outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Potchefstroom High School for BoysIntroduction to Computer Programming, Introduction to Computer Programming at Goldsmiths, University of LondonCivil Engineering, Civil Engineering at Technikon Witwatersrand
Afrikaans, German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
apidoc10
testing10
acl10
go10
access-control-list10
api10
access-control10
mongodb6
openstack-keystone6
meteor6
rocketchat6
django6
openstack-sdk6
go-gorm6
openstack-api6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/nomad
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 4 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Lance's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Nomad workload orchestrator, specifically related to Access Control Lists (ACLs) and token management. They introduced the capability for operators to provide bootstrap tokens via file input, modifying the bootstrap process. Further contributions include improvements to the ACL endpoint and associated testing, alongside refactoring file references. In addition, the user added the ability to customize the CA details during creation and deprecated the old bootstrap token methods.
consulmicroservicesvault
open-wander/wander
May 2024 - Jan 2026
Wander is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Wander is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 7 months
consulmicroservicesvault
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